Avoid debt.

Don't buy into sales pitches about employers preferring riddle rats over someone who didn't go to riddle. Not true. Having ERAU on your resume doens't enhance it any more than eastern new mexico university online, unless you're applying to the national test pilot school and have an aeronautical engineering degree. Then ERAU looks good. Otherwise, no one cares, especially for a run-of-the-mill pilot job.

Ari Ben Whatever? Who cares? Find a place that you can get decent training, get your ratings and move on, without immersing yourself in debt. Where ever that may be. Once you've moved on from that school, nobody will care about the brand name of the place that did your flight training. They will care if you can fly, and if you meet the qualifications for a job. Do you have the hours? The experience (which is not the same as hours)? The ratings? For pilots, having a degree is checking a box; there is nothing in a degee that will make you a better pilot, and employers know this. One slip of paper is as good as the next, and no one is going to fall on their knees at your feet in awe of a riddle receipt. No matter what ERAU tells you.

In today's hiring environment, many places have dropped the degree requirement. What does that tell you?